De Grey Station
Coordinates: 20°10′32″S 119°11′29″E / 20.17556°S 119.19139°E De Grey Station is a pastoral lease formerly a sheep station and now a cattle station approximately 80 kilometres (50 mi) east of Port Hedland on the mouth of the De Grey River in the Pilbara Region of Western Australia.
Pardoo Station was established as an outstation of De Grey in 1869 and has a size of over 200,000 hectares (494,211 acres). The station has sheep, breeding mares and camels and now runs 6,000 head of cattle.
De Grey is the earliest pastoral lease in Western Australia dating from 1862. The property was owned by Samuel Peter Mackay in 1875 and was briefly managed by George Julius Brockman for three months of the same year while Mackay travelled to Melbourne.
Alexander Forrest, the Western Australian explorer and surveyor, began his historic 1879 expedition from De Grey River Station, leaving on 25 February 1879 and 'receiving much kind assistance from Mr Anderson' before travelling with his party overland to Condon.
The station occupied an area of almost 3,000,000 acres (1,214,057 ha) in 1886 when it was owned by Messrs Grant, Anderson and Edgar. The owners had acquired an additional area from a neighbouring lease that had been abandoned by Messrs. Padbury and Co. when the price of wool was quite low. At this time the property was divided into 16 paddocks separated by about 200 miles (322 km) of six-wire sheep-proof fencing and all with water tanks supplied by the De Grey River.
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